Underage Drinking

[Lone Wolf]

I am underage and I don't drink, nor I intend to. I'm quite a boring fellow, really.

 

[Ansar]

I am underage and I don't drink, nor I intend to. I'm quite a boring fellow, really.

A Russian who DOESN'T drink ?!

Is that even possible?!

(just kidding)

 

[Lone Wolf]

I am half-Russian, half-Jew.

 

[RedRalph]

Here pretty much everyone drinks underage, from abut 14. but thankfully, generally underage kids drink beer and not spirits, so its not a massive problem. My son it 11 and I know hes going to be drinking withint the next 5 years. i wont be over the moon about it, but I'll know me and all my friends did it, and for 95% of us it did no harm.

 

[Abaddon]

I'm underage, I never drink and I would not. <= You suck.

I drink, did drink, ands its fun. Everything in moderation and only with Jagerbombs.

 

[Fuzzz]

Did you? Do you? Would you? Will you?

I did and would again.

I drink less then I did as a teen btw, I somehow don't feel the urge to get drunk that often anymore, so it must've been a puberty thing or stn.

 

[Bill3000]

I am half-Russian, half-Jew.

You cannot be a half Jew. You either are, through your jewish religion of your mother or by being converted, or you aren't. You can, however, be a Russian Jew.

 

[Jawz II]

I get drunk maybe 3 times a year now, back when I was I dunno 16-17? I used to get really really drunk every single weekend.

Basicly the game was "drink till you puke" and we did it every single weekend. God that was moronic. Why did we do that? I guess living in a very small town didn't help.

I used to have this 20 liter plastic can at my place, filled it up to the brim with moonshine every or every other weekend.

Sold some, drank the rest with my idiot buddies. Good times.

 

[Eran of Arcadia]

You cannot be a half Jew. You either are, through your jewish religion of your mother or by being converted, or you aren't.

If we apply the same rules of ethnicity to Judaism as an ethnic group, then you can.

 

[Erik Mesoy]

I'm of age to drink, I don't drink, and I didn't drink when I was underage.

DISCLAIMER: The above is a highly generalised and averaged statement. Exceptions such as Holy Communion (ca. 1 teaspoon of wine a week) exist.

 

[rkade8583]

I never did and never will go out of my way to drink (It's gotta be one of those REALLY bad days) but I did and will indulge now and then.

 

[Stolen Rutters]

I like money too much to drink... It's a family curse. Everyone in our family that found "the bottle" ended up completely changing their priorities in life... to the great benefit of the liquor store.

I don't want to be that poor drunk, living off the kindness of friends until they kick me out, borrowing money I'll never be able to pay back... It's a really, really tasty drink though, but I really like being employed.

 

[b etor]

I'm underage and I sometimes drink.

 

[Bill3000]

If we apply the same rules of ethnicity to Judaism as an ethnic group, then you can.

Yeah but the problem is that unlike other ethnic groups, Judaism has specific laws regarding this...

 

[psweetman1590]

Laws cannot change the genes in your cells. If half the genes come from a Jewish background, then you are ethnically half Jewish.

 

[Quintillus]

...How do you folks who claim not to drink at all underage celebrate anything without just a smidgen of alcohol?

1. Is there no drink at family gatherings?
2. Is there no celebration after exams/graduation?
3. No drink at friend's birthdays?

Hell I mean when I were all legally kids (instead of just mentally as today - we range from 21 - 16 nowadays) we'd all have at least a glass of wine every family occasion... you know, christmas, new year, joint holidays.... you know... whenever everyone was there...?

1. Nope, none. Not even amongst the adults. Occasionally my grandpa or uncle will have a drink at a bar or playing billiards, but never will anyone have any at family gatherings. Might as well have some lemonade.

2. There is celebration after exams/graduation all right! Just not with drinking. You can have some mighty fun parties without drinking, and you remember them the next day, too. Or the next week. Some parts of the parties you remember months later - really good ones even years later. The weekly Friday parties I had last semester of last year, all without alcohol, were all tremendous fun and on the whole were one of the best times of my life.

The parties include anywhere from 4-18 good friends, usually 6-12, and games such as Halo, Risk, poker, bowling, or basketball. Once in a while something unusual was thrown in the mix. Quite often there was pizza or subs involved.

There was never any pressure to drink, either - one of the things I really like about my group of friends is they all share the non-drinking philosophy.

3. Nope - I suppose the last paragraph kind of gave that away. Birthday parties were on the whole similar to other parties, only often with slightly larger groups of friends. One of my friends tried some champagne at his family celebration of his 18th birthday (he didn't like it), but other than that I can't think of any of my friends ever drinking any alcohol, birthday or not.

So as you could've probably guessed I find drinking unnecessary and pointless, and voted underage and probably never will drink. In terms of social philosophy I'm a prohibitionist, unfortunately history has shown prohibition to be rather hard to implement, even in times of more widespread public support.

 

[shortguy]

Well, there's sample bias here too. When I think about the kids I went to high school with, most of the real drinkers weren't the ones I'd expect to be posting on this kind of forum, and the ones I'd expect to see here, I'd be surprised to find at "that kind of party".

That may be kinda true for high school, but in college drinking loses its social boundaries somewhat.

I'm underage, I never drink and I would not. <= You suck.

Come on now, that's not a very mature attitude. There's nothing wrong at all with not drinking. And when you go a wee bit beyond your limit and one of those "sucky" teetotalers saves your stupid behind, maybe you'll grow up a little.

 

[JZ_UK]

2. There is celebration after exams/graduation all right! Just not with drinking. You can have some mighty fun parties without drinking, and you remember them the next day, too. Or the next week. Some parts of the parties you remember months later - really good ones even years later. The weekly Friday parties I had last semester of last year, all without alcohol, were all tremendous fun and on the whole were one of the best times of my life.

The parties include anywhere from 4-18 good friends, usually 6-12, and games such as Halo, Risk, poker, bowling, or basketball. Once in a while something unusual was thrown in the mix. Quite often there was pizza or subs involved.

There was never any pressure to drink, either - one of the things I really like about my group of friends is they all share the non-drinking philosophy.

Amazingly you don't become an amnesiac the moment a drop passes your lips, to "not remember the evening" (as seems to be a common theme amoungst non-drinking responses) you have to consume a lot, much more than is sensible, in my experience that would be taking on a 6"4 90-100kg beast of a guy in a Jack drinking contest and winning, while being about 5"8 and 65kg, in hindsight it was not a good idea, not gentle on the wallet either... but even then, "don't remember the evening" doesn't apply, I do have missing patches from the night, but I certainly don't have a complete black out of it

I've never been that drunk since, in fact I've probably never been drunk since then, there is after all a difference between getting merry and being smashed (I'm a guilty drunk, if I drink more than I think is a good idea I get all somber and feel bad about it... and stop drinking more, with the exception of that night)

3. Nope - I suppose the last paragraph kind of gave that away. Birthday parties were on the whole similar to other parties, only often with slightly larger groups of friends. One of my friends tried some champagne at his family celebration of his 18th birthday (he didn't like it), but other than that I can't think of any of my friends ever drinking any alcohol, birthday or not.

So as you could've probably guessed I find drinking unnecessary and pointless, and voted underage and probably never will drink. In terms of social philosophy I'm a prohibitionist, unfortunately history has shown prohibition to be rather hard to implement, even in times of more widespread public support.

An irresolvable difference, fortunately one history has shown is an unlikely turn of events...

 

[Colonel]

I wish I were drunk right now. Much happier I would be.

 

[Quintillus]

True, one drop doesn't result in a blackout. But it's like anything else - you don't know if you'll be hooked on it until you try it for the first time. And it's a risk I don't particularly want to take. Might as well save the wallet a bit, and abide by the law in the process.